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...over the evident mediocrity of the candidates the President was considering for the distinguished chairs of John Harlan and the late Hugo Black. As Nixon settled behind his desk in the Oval Office to announce his choices over television, he was almost universally expected to appoint Little Rock Lawyer Herschel Friday and California Court of Appeals Judge Mildred Lillie?nominees widely regarded as obscure and unsatisfactory. It looked like Haynsworth and Carswell all over again, some Senators predicted, with another vitriolic fight over confirmation. "As a group," Edward Kennedy had said, the six candidates Nixon was known to be considering...
...with Charles Clark of Mississippi and Paul Roney of Florida, both of whom Nixon had appointed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Roney is a Republican lawyer with no prior judicial experience. Clark, a Mississippi lawyer, likewise had no earlier experience on the bench. Another Mitchell suggestion was Herschel Friday, a prominent Little Rock attorney who for 14 years had compiled a record of unsuccessful efforts to defend Arkansas school boards against desegregation. His firm's fees for such cases amounted to some...
...became clear that even most of the White House staff regarded the choices as a disaster. John Mitchell held a background briefing for reporters in his office. Actually, he said, 15 names were under consideration. But that was a smokescreen. The fact was that Nixon meant to nominate Herschel Friday and Mildred Lillie...
...extraordinary secrecy prevailed. Nixon was angered by the disclosure of his list of six. White House advisers did not learn of the new choices until just before the broadcast. Nor did Herschel Friday and Judge Lillie, who got the word just an hour before the President went on television. Rumors caromed through the White House. The President himself, rather theatrically, said later: "I didn't know until the last minute which way I would go." At 7:21, the Associated Press sent out a bulletin that Nixon was about to appoint Rehnquist and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Arlin Adams...
...HERSCHEL H. FRIDAY, 49. "For once Nixon has not latched on to a raving incompetent " says Philip Kaplan, a civil rights attorney who has opposed Friday many times in court. "But still, he's the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time." Friday is a smiling but unprepossessing lawyer whose firm is the leading legal defender of segregation in Little Rock public schools. Admits former Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller: "There are other people I would have thought of first." Friday, a Democrat, is a friend of Attorney General Mitchell, a fellow expert on municipal and corporate...